Fairy tales, fables and folk tales

The Jackal, the Barber and the Brahmin

Intermediate

32 min read

A Barber and a Jackal once struck up a great friendship, which might have continued to this day, had not the Jackal been so clever that the Barber never felt quite on equal terms with him, and suspected his friend of playing him many tricks. But this he was not able to prove. One day […]

The Lassie and her Grandmother

Asbjørnsen & Moe
Norwegian

Advanced

9 min read

Once on a time a poor couple lived far, far away in a great wood. The wife was brought to bed, and had a pretty girl, but they were so poor they did not know how to get the babe christened, for they had no money to pay the parson’s fees. So one day the […]

How Brynhild Was Won for Gunnar

Padraic Colum
Nordic

Intermediate

7 min read

Now that Sigurd had wed Gudrun he was one with the Nibelungs. The hoard that was in Fafnir’s cave he brought away and he left it in their treasure house. He went into his fosterfather’s kingdom again, and he saw King Alv and Hiordis, his mother. But he had no memory now of the House […]

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